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Fairy Glen, as viewed from Castle Ewan.

Isle of Skye, Scotland

Fairy Glen

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The Smoking Hills, as seen from the sea.

Inuvik, Unorganized, Northwest Territories

The Smoking Hills

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

Nyiragongo Volcano in 2016

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nyiragongo Volcano

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

Looking down into the lava lake

Antarctica

Mount Erebus

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Priest sitting outside the entrance to Abuna Yemata church.

East Tigray, Ethiopia

Abuna Yemata Guh

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

Dallol

Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia

Dallol

The hottest place on the planet.

Restaurante Coatí

Salvador, Brazil

Casa Coati

This modernist building is the last remnant of an ambitious plan to restore a neighborhood.

The Discovery Landmark, carved with a cross

Porto Seguro, Brazil

Marco do Descobrimento (Discovery Landmark)

This stone monument marks the beginning of Portugal's presence in Brazil.

Itaipu Dam

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

Itaipu Dam

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

Gruta Do Lago Azul

Bonito, Brazil

Gruta Do Lago Azul (Blue Lake Grotto)

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

Chapada das Mesas

Santa Terezinha, Brazil

Chapada das Mesas National Park

High plateaus and beautiful waterfalls frame this ecologically significant nature preserve.

National Park of Seven Cities - Parque Nacional de Sete Cidades

Brazil

National Park of Seven Cities - Parque Nacional de Sete Cidades

Unusual rock formations eroded into a landscape of stone beasts.

Victoria Amazonica

Chaves, Brazil

Victoria Amazonica

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

Lençóis Maranhenses

Santo Amaro do Maranhão, Brazil

Lençóis Maranhenses Dunes

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

The shiniest beach you'll ever see.

Fort Bragg, California

Glass Beach

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

1920s Subway Car complete with ceiling fansPhoto by Curious Expeditions

Brooklyn, New York

New York Transit Museum

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Wagner Free Institute

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wagner Free Institute

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Front entrance @ Devil's Tower. Sept 2017

Devils Tower, Wyoming

Devils Tower

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Goldbar
Permanently Closed

New York, New York

Goldbar

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

One of San Francisco's Victorian mansions has a trippy surprise inside.

San Francisco, California

Institute of Illegal Images

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Willis Tower Glass Platform

Chicago, Illinois

Willis Tower Glass Platform

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Clear waters in Manatee Springs State Park.

Chiefland, Florida

Manatee Springs State Park

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Svartifoss

Iceland

Svartifoss

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

The room that was previously part of the subway tunnel.

Brooklyn, New York

Le Boudoir

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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